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No "Compensation" to Israel for Iran Deal
By Sheldon Richman
"But even if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were right about Iran's intentions, he should be rejoicing at the agreement, under which Iran will get rid of nearly all of its enriched uranium and two-thirds of its centrifuges."

A Good Deal for Israel
By CHUCK FREILICH
"So, yes, we could have gotten a better deal. Israel wanted something different (as did the United States), but this is the agreement that was reached — and despite its faults, it is not a bad one. Crucially, it will contribute to Israel’s security."

What war-hungry conservatives completely ignore about Iran
By QASIM RASHID
"To be clear, Iran’s domestic human rights record leaves much to be desired. On the international front, however, we see a subtly different picture. Iran has not invaded another country in centuries. This, despite the United States overthrowing Iran’s democratically elected government in 1953, aiding Iraq in invading Iran with the use of chemical weapons on Iranian soldiers in 1980, and maintaining economic sanctions for over a decade."

Obama Acts For America's Interests
By Eric Margolis
"Barack Obama is the first American president to stand up to the Israel lobby since Dwight Eisenhower ordered Israel to withdraw from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in 1956-57."

Getting Down to Business in Cuba
By Medea Benjamin
"In case you missed it, the United States and Cuba now have diplomatic relations for the first time in 54 years. Unfortunately, the outdated economic embargo is smothering the tremendous potential this opening offers."

How the media missed the Donald Trump surge
By ERIC BOEHLERT, MEDIA MATTERS
"But is Trump’s run really that surprising? It shouldn’t be if you’ve been paying attention to the radical, obstructionist turn both Republican politics and the right-wing media have taken over the last six-plus years."

The Anti-Immigrant Binge in Congress
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"Congress is in danger of taking that most cursed of American political disagreements, the debate over illegal immigration, and dragging it farther toward insanity."

Trump Is the Poison His Party Concocted
By Timothy Egan
"Yes, how did we get to a point where up to one-fourth of the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan now aligns itself with Donald Trump?"

Psychologists Who Greenlighted Torture
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"A new report by a former federal prosecutor, first disclosed by James Risen in The Times, contains astonishing, disturbing details. It found that top members of the American Psychological Association, the largest professional organization of psychologists, colluded with officials at the Pentagon and the C.I.A. to keep the group’s ethics policies in line with tactics that interrogators working for the agency and the military were employing."

The Chattanooga Shootings: Can Attacking Military Sites of a Nation at War be "Terrorism"?
By Glenn Greenwald
" If you ask them to distinguish why they regard civilian-killing U.S. violence as legitimate and justified but regard the violence aimed at the U.S. as the opposite ('terrorism'), they'll likely claim that the U.S. only kills civilians by accident, not on purpose. Whether one is targeting civilian versus military sites is a central aspect to how we talk about the justifiability of violence and what is and is not 'terrorism.'"

The Bernie Sanders Moment
By TODD GITLIN
"In Mr. Sanders’s run — and in the absence of a White House bid from Senator Elizabeth Warren — progressives have found a candidate they can support wholeheartedly."

America’s drone program is a travesty — and a mystery even to its executors
By PRATAP CHATTERJEE, TOMDISPATCH.COM
"In reality, there’s nothing 'lone' about drone warfare. Think of the structure for carrying out Washington’s drone killing program as a multidimensional pyramid populated with hundreds of personnel and so complex that just about no one involved really grasps the full picture."

We Are All Greeks Now
By Chris Hedges
"The Greeks and the U.S. working poor endure the same deprivations because they are being assaulted by the same system -- corporate capitalism."

The Eurozone’s Damaging Deal for Greece
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"In the end, after trying every possible tactic, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece threw in the towel and accepted the toughest demands yet made by creditors to extend life support for Greece and keep it in the eurozone."

MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case?
By Robert Parry
"Like the Tonkin Gulf case, the evidence on the MH-17 case was shaky and contradictory from the start. But, in both cases, U.S. officials confidently pointed fingers at the 'enemy.' President Lyndon Johnson blamed North Vietnam in 1964 and Secretary of State John Kerry implicated ethnic Russian rebels and their backers in Moscow in 2014."

How a weaker Iran got the hegemon to lift sanctions
By Gareth Porter
"That media lens misses the real significance of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which is that Iran succeeded in negotiating an agreement with the United States that upheld its national right to a nuclear program despite the obvious vast disparity in power between the two states."

US/Israeli/Saudi "Behavior" Problems
By Robert Parry
"In this American land of make-believe, Iran is assailed as the chief instigator of instability in the Middle East. Yet, any sane and informed person would dispute that assessment, noting the far greater contributions made by Israel, Saudi Arabia and, indeed, the United States."

President Obama Takes On the Prison Crisis
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"On Thursday, for the first time in American history, a president walked into a federal prison. President Obama was there to see for himself a small piece of the damage that the nation’s decades-long binge of mass incarceration has wrought."

The South China Sea, in Court
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"A courtroom in The Hague has become an important new battleground in the multinational struggle over the resource-rich South China Sea."

Here’s a Way to Control Guns
By DAVID K. BRAWLEY, OTIS MOSS III, DAVID BENKE and JOEL MOSBACHER
"For the government to keep buying guns from these companies — purchases meant to ensure public safety — without making demands for change is to squander its leverage."

"To me, the bottom line is this: If we move on now without fully documenting what occurred, without acknowledging the betrayal of our values, and without determining whether or not any laws have been broken, we cannot help but validate all that has gone on before. If we look at the Bush record and conclude that the book should simply be closed, we will be tacitly approving both the documented abuses and the additional misdeeds we will have chosen to leave uncovered."
--Rep.John Conyers Chair of House Judiciary Committe, D-MI, January 3 1, 2009, Huffingtonpost.com

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